Complete takeover by .NET?

From: Al Leitch (al_leitch_at_3*&yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:29:38 -0700

It seems that .NET is going to take off. Furthermore, .NET is now the
big successor to MFC, I've been told. I remember in the days of DOS ->
Win95, you had most apps on the market for DOS. Win95 had to really make
an effort to support these. As the Windows versions came out, DOS became
more and more dead. Nowadays you never find commercial apps (well,
alright there's a small number of modern shareware apps) written for
DOS. Windows is here to stay.

What's going to become of the Win32API? Of course it will have to be
there cause face it, PE executables compiled for .NET have an
intermediate bytecode format, sorta like Java bytecode. All that .NET
intermediate stuff has to be dynamically recompiled, with the recompiled
code tapping into the Win32API?. How long is it gonna take before we get
to the point where windows is nearly entirely in .NET and non-.NET
programs will have a real problem being supported. Where the .NET
platform is the only thing providing a ring-3 level API at all?

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